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I'm not sure I get the point. If by B)The crimes committed by teenagers in the afternoon are mostly small thefts and inconsequential vandalism, then the conclusion (they are unlikely to affect the problem that concerns citizens) seems to remain unaffected since it would mean that the serious crimes ...
- by TheGraduate
Fri Apr 28, 2017 4:28 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Parktown crimes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4226
- by TheGraduate
Tue Apr 25, 2017 5:10 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Small Car Fuel Efficiency
- Replies: 31
- Views: 14647
Why would the following construction be incorrect ? : The single family house constructed by the Yana, a Native American people who lived in what is now northern California, was conical in shape , its framework of poles overlaid with slabs of bark, either cedar or pine , and was banked with dirt to ...
- by TheGraduate
Sun Apr 23, 2017 8:31 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: The single-family house
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7169
Today's technology allows manufacturers to make small cars more fuel-efficient now than at any time in their production history. A) small cars more fuel-efficient now than at any time in their B) small cars that are more fuel-efficient than they were at any time in their D) more fuel-efficient small...
- by TheGraduate
Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:08 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Small Car Fuel Efficiency
- Replies: 31
- Views: 14647
C: Today's technology allows manufacturers to make small cars that are more fuel-efficient than those at any other time in production history. D: Today's technology allows manufacturers to make more fuel-efficient small cars than those at any other time in their production history. Apart from other ...
- by TheGraduate
Fri Apr 21, 2017 11:09 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Small Car Fuel Efficiency
- Replies: 31
- Views: 14647
What is the reason behind elimination of B? Is there any reason besides "in order to" being wordy? Also, with E, it seems as if the news was sent to only New York and not Charleston by a swift messenger. Please comment. Error 1: news...that was sent by swift messenger Conveyed meaning: Th...
- by TheGraduate
Thu Apr 20, 2017 8:41 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: GMAT Prep-SC
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5581
Is the following construction correct?
According to public health officials, in 1998 Massachusetts became the first state in which more babies were born to women over the age of thirty than were born to women under it.
- by TheGraduate
Thu Apr 20, 2017 3:35 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: public health officials
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9989
The first shots of the American Revolution, fired at Lexington and Concord. Massachusetts, were, according to legend, heard around the world, but news of these shots, which were sent by swift messenger, took four days in reaching New York City as well as another additional eleven days to reach Charl...
- by TheGraduate
Wed Apr 19, 2017 5:09 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: GMAT Prep-SC
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5581
Hi David,
Thanks a lot for your explanation. I got the point. However, I just want to confirm that choice B talks of a third chip (i.e. besides the two talked of in the stimulus).
- by TheGraduate
Sun Apr 16, 2017 11:26 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Electronic computer
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5446
I got stumped by choice B. The stimulus talks of two chips: Chip 1: "contain millions of electronic switches" "cannot withstand intense radiation" Chip 2: MicroMechanics chip uses only microscopic mechanical switches "chip will contain only 12,000 switches" "invuln...
- by TheGraduate
Sun Apr 16, 2017 7:41 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Electronic computer
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5446
I'm not clear on why the group size decreases in spring and how it is connected to snakes in spring. A group size reduction can happen when a group of 10 splits into 2 groups of five. A snake in this scenario would make no difference. Please explain.
- by TheGraduate
Sat Apr 15, 2017 1:48 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: prairie vole
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8240
It can be figured out more or less easily that A is the best answer. However could anyone point out what is wrong with B. Is it just wordy or is there something really wrong with it? Also please comment on the other options if possible. Citing the recent increase in earnings by several computer comp...
- by TheGraduate
Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:33 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: A SC prob, pls help or come an instructor, tough
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9069
Sorry to be asking these many questions. The sentence sounds totally off to me. I'm sort of trying to make sure I don't go wrong on this type of question again. Could we write it as: More than three times as many independent institutions of higher education charge tuition and fees of under $8,000 a ...
- by TheGraduate
Thu Feb 09, 2017 5:06 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: According to a 1996 survey by the National Association...
- Replies: 16
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For many revisionist historians, Christopher Columbus has come to personify devastation and enslavement in the name of progress that has decimated native peoples of the Western Hemisphere . A. devastation and enslavement in the name of progress that has decimated native peoples of the Western Hemis...
- by TheGraduate
Mon Feb 06, 2017 2:23 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Christopher Columbus
- Replies: 48
- Views: 33669
I was wondering if there is a problem with the meaning of choices A, B and E since a scale cannot rate on its own (a scale is an inanimate object). An astronomer has to use the scale to rate. Am I right or wrong in thinking that way? Thanks I would not apply this line of reasoning. An OA in GMATPre...
- by TheGraduate
Sun Feb 05, 2017 3:46 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Responding to the public's fascination
- Replies: 17
- Views: 16820